[K12OSN] one year performance graphs and statistics for two server setups we use

[Les Mikesell]

Nadav Kavalerchik wrote:
> Cacti already monitor SNMP. i was looking for the exact SNMP strings you
> might think help me monitor router's bottle-necks , NIC's IO buttle-necks,
> cpu wait for IO, squid wait for...
> (actually, i monitor some hardware with SNMP. but i did not include it in
> the report.)
> 

Cacti is easier to set up, but opennms is more comprehensive and does 
more by default.  It will have default graphs for CPU use that 
color-code the user/system/wait times.  I don't think there is anything 
specific for NIC buffers but it will graph interface errors, total 
current connections, and connections being opened in in/out bound 
directions as well as interface bandwidth.  And it can notify you via 
email, sms, a jabber chat room, etc. when something goes wrong.

But there's probably only a few things that matter - one will be total 
outbound bandwidth for screen-intensive things, another will be CPU use 
for things like flash that all run on the server CPU.  These are easy to 
see even with cacti.  Another is disk head contention where multiple 
users/processes all are waiting for something in different locations on 
the same disk.  That one is harder to diagnose - and likely the most 
common bottleneck.

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   Les Mikesell
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